Following on from .MUSIC’s suggestion it get special status for its likely gTLD application when ICANN begins taking new gTLD applications in the near future, Domain Name Wire has a report that suggests those behind the .BERLIN initiative are after similar status.

Domain Name Wire notes dotBERLIN GmbH “has submitted a comment  to ICANN asking that companies that have been involved in the new top level domain name process for a long time be given an extra point on their application:
Many of the recently emerged new gTLD applicants may take advantage of the immense delay the new gTLD program has been facing since its start in 2005. The tentative timeline published with the Board’s approval of the new gTLD program in June 2008 stated an application window for March 2009. We think that applicants which were planning with this timeline already had a ripe application, while a number of new applicants who came in during the last 18 month sometimes seem to rather copy existing concepts and projects or have questionable business models.

For this reason we claim:
…One extra point in the Community Priority Evaluation should be given if organization of an applicant was already established before the approval of the new gTLDs program by the ICANN Board on 26 June 2008 or before the first communicated application window in March 2009.

To read this Domain Name Wire report in full, see:
domainnamewire.com/2010/07/15/dotberlin-wants-special-status-with-new-gtlds-because-of-its-early-involvement/

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